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[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

[ILUG] Re: Strange problem with WiFi cards

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Mar 26 23:05:08 GMT 2005


On Sat 26 Mar 2005 17:16, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:

> On the card that doesn't work, "ifconfig eth0 hw ether <working MAC
> ADDR>[1]"

When I try this with the bad card, it returns with nothing.
When I try it with the good card, it returns with "Device or resource busy".

Thanks to you all for your help.
I'm beginning to wonder if the card is sick ...
though as I said it works fine under Windows,
on two different (but identical) laptops.


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